Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched the entire Super Bowl broadcast from pre-game to postgame, you endured only 60 minutes of actual live football, but you saw more than 180 commercials comprising more than 90 minutes of advertising messages. And except for the action-packed second quarter of the game, the commercials provided most of the program's thrills...
Besides the Jackson campaign, however, candidates' student groups have similar agendas for this spring. Most plan weekend canvassing trips to New Hampshire over the next two weeks, coupled with more campus publicity. Most groups do not anticipate any more visits by presidential hopefuls, although every candidate except for Vice President George Bush came to Harvard's Institute of Politics this fall for Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy Marvin S. Kalb's series of interviews...
...Wall Street Journal described the farm issue in a Jan. 8 headline: WHAT WAS A CRISIS BECOMES ONLY A PROBLEM. For every farmer unable to pay his debts, three or four others can actually buy more acreage. Debt delinquencies are lower, but so is the price of farmland, except in areas where developers want in. The entire farm economy operates as if in a vast container, a silo; and since places like Iowa rely so heavily on Washington subsidies, you can be sure that for the near future, a small improvement is as good as life will...
...explosion in medical premiums hits business especially hard. Except for Government workers and those covered by Medicare and Medicaid, most Americans are insured against medical expenses through private employers. To provide that coverage, U.S. companies will pay $130 billion in insurance premiums this year, up from $110 billion...
...only the ring seemed to reach out for Holmes, though Tyson tried. "At his best, he was the greatest of our time," said the undefeated young barbarian, 21, who meant it kindly. "I always used to want Holmes to win, except when he fought Ali." So even afterward, Tyson was landing one- twos. In the prefight keynote, one last time, the vague old champ Muhammad Ali was paraded in front of the unfortunate man whom history had designated to follow him. Later, as Holmes spun drunkenly about the ring, Ali's former corner physician Ferdie Pacheco murmured, "Those...